| Posting Date: |
July 13, 2017 |
| Position Title: |
Outside Sales Representative |
| Salary: |
Commensurate with Experience |
| Location: |
Southern NJ / Pennsylvania |
| Position Type: |
Full Time |
| Description: |
Vantage Apparel, a midsize manufacturer, is the nation’s top source for custom logo apparel, with key end clients including Fortune 500 companies, resorts, golf courses, colleges, and casinos. If you’ve been to a store that has employees wearing shirts with logos, there is a very good chance that the product or logo decoration was done by Vantage Apparel. We’ve been the leading innovator in the promotional apparel industry since 1977, and we have an exciting opportunity available on our sales team for an Outside Sales Representative including the Southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania regions. For this role, Vantage seeks a dynamic individual, who possess an entrepreneurial spirit and has an interest in both the promotional products and apparel industries.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Outside Sales Representative’s main responsibility is to protect, grow and develop new profitable sales and business relationships for Vantage Apparel in the assigned territory and with assigned accounts. This is to be achieved by spending 75% of his/her time meeting with customers and prospective customers; conducting product/service presentations, conducting consultative sales meetings, canvassing the territory with collateral materials and drop by visits, attending regional and national industry tradeshows and road shows, and performing other services and activities that may or will maintain, grow, and develop sales, sales opportunities, and ongoing beneficial business relationships.
The balance of work time will be spent on activities that support the outside sales efforts being made by developing solutions & sales for customers and prospects as well as reporting activities. These activities would include scheduling of travel and meetings, outbound telemarketing and follow-up phone calls, coordination of marketing and email campaigns, preparing quotes and proposals, onsite facility visits with customers/prospects and more. Additional responsibilities, tasks and assignments as assigned. |
| Qualifications: |
- Knowledge of the Promotional Products industry, including the industry’s business model, pricing structures, companies, and people are preferred. Knowledge of the apparel business and/or the decorated apparel business is a plus. Knowledge of Vantage Apparel’s product lines and services is a plus.
- Three years of sales experience working either as an Inside or Outside Sales Representative is preferred
- Knowledge of the geographical territory
- Candidate must own or have ongoing consistent access to reliable independent transportation
- Candidate must be able to lift 35 lbs. Being comfortable transporting a rolling rack of clothing along with boxes of collateral printed material is preferred.
- Overnight travel (3 times per year at minimum)
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| Remarks: |
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| Contact: |
jobs@vantageapparel.com |
| Closing Date: |
Until Filled |